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Eleven North Carolina artists are the focus for Reality & Myth, the Spring 2008 art exhibit at Davidson County Community College. Their works include photography, sculpture, oils, watercolors, pastels, etchings and original prints.
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| Nestled Turf Shed by James C. Williams (infrared photography) |
The show features the works of nationally known portrait sculptor Earline heath King of Winston-Salem. Her subjects have included Sir Winston Churchill, former North Carolina Gov. Jim Hunt, Dr. Armand Hammer and Richard J. Reynolds.
Photographer and author Doug Butler of Crumpler share photos from his collection of photographs of the highest peaks in each of the 50 states. He combined his love of mountain climbing and photography to achieve his goal of identifying and photographing these peaks. Butler’s experiences have led him to write a book, A Walk Atop America. In addition, his photos of Africa will be on exhibit
The nine other exhibiting artists and their media include:
• Melissa Day of Winston-Salem is an oil painter. She has created colorful canvases of still lifes and landscapes.
• Helen Etters, in her second exhibit at the college, is a photographer who captures the brilliance of images and forms. She is from Winston-Salem.
• Nelida Flatow of Winston-Salem, whose a printmaking captivates the imagination, also exhibits in charcoal and pastel.
• Alix Hitchcock of Mocksville is a printmaker and drawing instructor at Wake Forest University. She paints in an abstract manner with her collection of ink and watercolor works entitled “Transparencies.”
• Master Pastelist Toni Lindahl of McLeansville uses a contrasting pattern of surfaces, movement and color to interpret the beauty of nature.
• Audrey Mayville of Winston-Salem is a figurative portrait sculptor whose main focus is capturing the personality of her subjects as well as the likeness.
• Marsha Thrift of Winston-Salem is a pastelist whose vibrant strokes of color give energy to her artworks.
• Janet Warner of Creston depicts the warmth and movement of cats with her etchings and renders the form of trees and other animals with precision.
• James C. Williams, whose infrared photography depicts the landscapes of Ireland with visual imagery of tree, shrubs and statuary, is a Winston-Salem resident.
The show runs through May 18 and is open to the public during regular college operating hours
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